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This Week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter:

In the new issue:

  • The life and times of Superstar Billy Graham
  • A history of every Graham main event in Madison Square Garden
  • How the entire history of wrestling changes if there was no Billy Graham
  • Graham’s decades of health issues
  • Graham suing WWF
  • Graham losing the title and depression and why
  • Graham in football, boxing, bodybuilding, track, world’s strongest man competitions and more
  • The last week of Graham as WWWF champion
  • When Billy Graham was reported as dying 32 years ago in two major newspapers
  • His start of his career and first time he met Dr. Jerry Graham
  • His big break in the AWA when he became a big drawing card and his interviews
  • His changing the way top stars were paid in WWWF
  • His last run in WWF
  • His life after wrestling
  • Everything said and not said about AEW Collision
  • How CM Punk fits into the picture
  • Why Punk really was such an important character right now for AEW if things would have worked out
  • Thoughts on Collision and its time slot
  • How AEW’s fan base consumption has changed over the last year
  • The blow-by-blow story of how WWE and Endeavor made their merger, including other offers, how much the offers were, and how much Vince McMahon made through the different negotiations
  • Just how much money Endeavor gave up to keep Vince McMahon
  • UFC business notes
  • Francis Ngannou signs with PFL, his deal, his negotiations and different potential opponents
  • Update on the WWE brand split
  • Update on WWE Night of Champions
  • Update on AEW Double or Nothing
  • New Japan Best of the Super Juniors coverage
  • This week’s UFC show rundown
  • The most detailed look at the TV ratings of wrestling over the past week
  • What wrestler is getting a pickle ball court named after him
  • Build for what looks to be the biggest match of the year in Mexico
  • More on a major network negotiations for a new wrestling show and why the deal fell through
  • Update on Kota Ibushi
  • More on Von Erichs moving back to Texas
  • New play loosely based on WWE
  • International TV ratings
  • AEW house shows
  • UFC fall schedule and new fights
  • Bellator draws 12,000 for show this past week
  • Nine drug test failures
  • Randy Orton update
  • Bray Wyatt update
  • More on the WWE show in Puerto Rico
  • Lots of new WWE business talk by Nick Khan
  • WWE injury updates
  • Upcoming WWE ticket sales
  • All the weekly WWE business info

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Tuesday Update

WWE

  • Today marks 24 years since the death of Owen Hart. In remembrance of her uncle, Natalya shared on Twitter: “Love these rare photos of Owen working for my grandfather in Stampede Wrestling. I’m thinking of Owen on the anniversary of his passing today. I think of Owen often and what a bright, positive light he was in the wrestling world, but even more so as a person outside the ring.”
  • Carmella, who is expecting her first child in November, told The Messenger that she’s looking forward to the challenge of returning to the ring after giving birth:
          • I love working for WWE, I love performing and it’s just such a passion of mine. I’ve done it for 10 years so it’s so crazy to be away from it.
          • To have a baby and then go back to work in an area that’s just so physical and so demanding — I’m really looking forward to that challenge.
  • In an interview with the Daily Mail, AJ Styles was asked how he handled his time away from the ring with a broken ankle:
          • I will tell you this. I thought I might go stir-crazy being stuck at home and not being able to do what I wanted to do, which I did a little bit. I wanna go when I wanna go and do what I wanna do and when you’ve got a boot and crutches it just hinders that and it will drive you nuts. That’s what drove me crazy, not being unable to be in a wrestling ring as I thought it would.
          • I enjoyed the time, I enjoyed seeing my kids and my wife as it’s the first time I’ve been out this long in my career. So it kind of put things in perspective, like when retirement does come, I’m going to be ok.
          • But I did go down to the Performance Center and see these young, hungry kids and it inspired me to finish strong. Whenever I finish from now on, I want to finish strong. Being down there really helped my motivation.
  • Kurt Angle and his wife Giovanna renewed their wedding vows over the weekend: “This past weekend, I had the honor of remarrying my beautiful wife Giovanna at Crossroads Church. It was an amazing family moment because we were able to get married in front of our children, showing them what true love really is. Thank you to my incredible wife for saying ‘YES’ again. I love you always and forever!!!!”
  • After being interrupted by Brock Lesnar on Raw, Mustafa Ali finished cutting his promo on social media.
  • Nikki Cross vs. Emma and Dana Brooke vs. Tegan Nox are the matches that will be airing on this week’s episode of Main Event.
  • The Under the Ring podcast interviewed Tiffany Stratton.
  • People has an interview with Bianca Belair.
  • WWE’s YouTube channel uploaded the following matches: Cena vs. Foley vs. Lashley vs. Orton vs. Booker T for the WWE Championship (Night of Champions 2007), Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown Women’s Championship (Clash of Champions 2019), and AJ Styles & Liv Morgan vs. Damian Priest & Rhea Ripley (May 23, 2022 Raw).

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